Hybrid Open Access Dashboard: Consortial Transformative Agreements in Germany
How open are hybrid journals in transformative agreements with library consortia based in Germany? You can analyse progress made over time by open license, publisher and country. You can also monitor the availability of publisher-provided metadata in Crossref.
The share of Open Access articles with a Creative Commons license in 5,658 hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany is as follows:
2017-2022
| Global | Germany* |
| 11.5% | 37.9% |
| 445K out of 3.88M | 72K out of 189K |
2022
| Global | Germany* |
| 20% | 70.6% |
| 136K out of 678K | 20K out of 28K |
*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.
Creative Commons licenses over time
Percentage of Open Access in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany by Creative Commons license types as provided by Crossref.
*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.
Creative Commons licenses over time by publisher
Percentage of Open Access in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany by Creative Commons license types and Top 13 publishers in terms of total Open Access articles published in these journals between 2017 and 2022.
*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.
Publishing market
Publishing market over time
Hybrid journal publisher portfolio analysis, showing publishing market shares in terms of total and Open Access article volume. Note that only hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany are shown.
*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.
Publisher league: Hybrid Open Access output
This interactive table highlights the output of hybrid Open Access publishers by year, sorted by total annual publication volume. It shows the number and proportion of Open Access articles made available under a Creative Commons licence in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany. The table also shows the number of hybrid journals per portfolio and the corresponding percentage of hybrid journals with at least one OA article. You can filter by publisher, publication year and between a global and a country-specific view with respect to lead author publications from Germany.
Country view
This section shows how hybrid open access has been adopted in different parts of the world. The analysis is based on the country affiliation of lead authors. Lead authors are the first named authors of scholarly articles, who have typically conducted most of the research presented in the article, although the role of lead authors can vary across disciplines. We used OpenAlex as a data source to determine the affiliation of lead authors.
Open Access in hybrid journals by country
Percentage of Open Access articles with a Creative Commons license per country. Shown are the Top 20 most productive countries in terms of articles published in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany between 2017 and 2022. The analysis is based on the country affiliation of the lead authors.
Country league
Publication volume and Open Access share in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany. You can search for specific countries, and filter by publisher and publication year. The analysis is based on country-affiliations of lead authors.
Open metadata
Open and comprehensive metadata is a key requirement of many transformative agreements. The following tables illustrate potential gaps in Crossref metadata for Open Access articles in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany.
License metadata gaps
Comparison of open licence metadata in Crossref with Unpaywall per year. You can compare global metrics with metrics only for articles by lead authors based in Germany. In addition to Crossref licence information, Unpaywall also analyses publisher websites to determine whether an article has been published under an open content licence. More Open Access articles derived from Crossref may indicate an offset between metadata changes and Unpaywall-indexing, while more Open Access articles identified by Unpaywall suggest that publishers have not deposited licensing metadata in Crossref for all articles.
Crossref metadata coverage
This interactive table shows the proportion of Crossref metadata that is publicly available for Open Access articles in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany. Publishers can use Crossref to share links to full-texts for text-mining purposes, persistent links to authors (ORCID) and funder information. They can also open up abstracts and reference lists through Crossref.
Journal table
This table presents the publication volume and Open Access share by hybrid journal included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany between 2017 and 2022, comparing global metrics with metrics only for articles by lead authors based in Germany. Charts show the yearly Open Access share. You can search for journals or select a table header to sort by journal name or a metric.